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Domain 3

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Have some consistency
To be reliable, statistical data must:
Census
What term is used for the number of inpatients present at any one time in a healthcare facility?
Request a new data chart be presented that accurately reflects the trend of infection rate
The HIM data analytics professional is reviewing a chart (shown here) on nosocomial infections presented by the hospital's infection control committee. The committee is reporting that the decrease in infection rate has accelerated during the past 10 years. What comments should the data analytics professional make?
$5.51 per record
The HIM department at Community Hospital has three full time coders. One is considered the lead coder and his salary is $20.35 per hour. One coder is a new graduate who makes $15.50 per hour and the third coder is an experienced employee who earns $18.90 per hour. The lead coder codes four records per hour; the new coder codes three records per hour and their experienced coder codes six records per hour. Using a 7.5-hour productive day, what is the unit cost for the new graduate coder?
Data Model
Which of the following is a technique for graphically depicting the structure of a computer database?
Abstracting
After the types of cases to be included in a trauma registry have been determined, what is the next step in data acquisition?
8 days
Community Hospital discharged nine patients on April 1. The length of stay for each of the patients was as follows: for patient A, 1 day; for patient B, 5 days; for patient C, 3 days; for patient D, 3 days; for patient E, 8 days; for patient F, 8 days; for patient G, 8 days; for patient H, 9 days; patient I, 9 days. What was the median length of stay?
It only contains Medicare patients
Why is the MEDPAR file limited in terms of being used for research purposes?
50
On October 1st, a hurricane hit a small coastal community, which has a community hospital licensed for 50 beds. Hospital staff set up 10 additional beds around the facility and used three labor room beds and two treatment room beds in order to help take care of patients. Which of the following would be the denominator used to determine the percentage of occupancy for October 1st?
Measles
Which of the following reportable diseases usually requires telephone reporting as opposed to other methods of reporting?
0.98%
At Community Hospital, each full-time employee is required to work 2,080 hours annually. The table below shows the amount of time that five employees were absent from work over the past year.
Incidence
Which rate describes the probability or risk of illness in a population over a period of time?
Recommended for staff reappointment
A report that lists the ICD-10-CM codes associated with each physician in a healthcare facility can be used to assess the quality of the physician's services before he or she is:
Primary key
Which of the following uniquely identifies each record in a database table?
The Physician's Index
A secondary data source includes ________.
MEDPAR
Which of the following is made up of claims data from Medicare claims submitted by acute-care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities?
Dashboard
One of the pediatricians at Community Physician's Clinic worked with a software vendor to get a display of the patients she currently has in the hospital on her smart phone that lets her know current information such as lab results, vital signs, medications given. This is called a ________.
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